"Guatemala's Public Prosecutor's Office dropped the criminal proceedings initiated in 2022 against several journalists by former Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who has been sanctioned by the United States for corruption.
The decision was confirmed this Monday [June 8] by one of the journalists facing legal prosecution, Alexánder Valdez, after he was notified via a formal submission delivered by the Public Prosecutor's Office to the Constitutional Court—the Central American country's highest court.
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The decision reflects the stance of the new Attorney General and head of the Guatemalan Public Prosecutor's Office, Gabriel García Luna, who took office on May 18.
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Porras Argueta sought to have a group of journalists and columnists from the now-defunct newspaper elPeriódico subjected to standard criminal investigations for obstruction of justice. This move followed their commentary on judicial irregularities in the case for alleged money-laundering against the outlet's founder, journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, who was imprisoned for three years without any charges against him being proven."
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This text was translated with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Teresa Mioli.
